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Per Hansson's documentary novel "Even if They Take Our Lives" is a moving and poignant saga about the heroic struggle of the Morset family against the Nazi occupiers in Norway during World War II.
Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for an unattainable and mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.
The picture of Katie and David Carr's marriage, sketched with Nick Hornby's mercilessly witty strokes, is more like a still life peeking out from a toadstool.
The narrative time that Fowles writes about is the reign of Queen Victoria, a time of comfortable middle-class life in which religious postulates and scientific progress were believed in almost equal measure.
At the center of the plot is a young woman, Siena, who lives in a dangerous and unstable environment marked by violence and conflicts between people eager for power and wealth.
A satire on the American petty-bourgeois life in which the magical witch Jennifer introduced a real revolution.